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Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Who Are We?
Katharine Fellows. I don’t have to look far for who’s responsible for my love of history: my secondary school history teacher whose...
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Oh, the Places You'll Go...
Cover Image: Aeneas Piccolomini leaves for the Council of Basel, Pinturicchio, Piccolomini Library, Duomo, Siena. Book 1: Chapters 3-7....
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Cardinal Domenico Caprancia (1400-58).
Cardinal Capranica was born in Capranica Prenestina (Lazio) in the jubilee year 1400. He was born into a ‘nobilis romanus’. His father...
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Pope Pius II as an author: an overview.
I've spent the past couple of days dipping in and out of Richard B. Hilary's 1969 doctoral thesis on the appointments of Pope Pius II...
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The First Manuscript of The Commentaries
Barry Torch, writing this, would like to present Reginensi Latini 1995, or, the rough draft of Pius II's Commentaries!...
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The Preface, and Book I Chapter 1
Image: Top half, Katie Fellows on the right, Barry Torch on the left; Bottom Half: The manuscript of the Commentaries, Reg. Lat. 1995....
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Contextualising the Commentaries: Whose ruling where and what the heck is going on in the world?
Who, what and where: A quick insight into the world of the Commentaries.
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Where are the sources?!
Barry Torch: The Commentaries of Pope Pius II has a notoriously complicated history from its original writing to its original, then...
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OFFICIAL CHARTING THE COMMENTARIES FOR A MODERN AUDIENCE WITH FELLOWS AND TORCH: BRINGING THE SEMINAL WORK OF POPE PIUS II (1405-64) TO LIFE.
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